down. whenever he was asked, he would respond, build the wall. that s how zemour wants to run, he says. so zemour, the french trump? almost. the former tv personality still a long shot candidate is one part trump, one part tucker carlson. how precisely is diversity or strength? he s not from this country in that sense. reporter: zemour, the now expn journalist, is a facsimile of the fox news star, same debating styles, same cable used platform, say enviable b ratings, and the same obsession with culture wars. translator: we must choose names from the calendar, the names of christian saints. your mother was wrong. reporter: and like carlson, zemour never had interest in running for office. until he did. cnn, paris.
religious and racial hatred and fined. zemour has drawn comparisons to another fire-breathing populace. they re bringing drugs. they re bringing crime. they re rapists. translator: they re thieves, assassins, rapists. that s all they are. they can try to steal the election from us. translator: don t let them steal the election from you. reporter: zemour and trump, the parallels, however imprecise, are hard to miss. political outsiders who capitalized on their tv fame to launch an unlikely presidential bid, the promise we will make america great again. reporter: bring the country back to an imagined former glory. translator: the france of tnapoleon and charles de gaulle. reporter: he draws inspiration from donald trump, explains his biographer. he loved that trump never backed